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Orange has said that it will also cover any termination fees that need to be paid for leaving the contract early.

However, this offer will only last for the length of the customer’s current mobile contract.

If customers want the deal they will have to contact Orange and explain how they’ve been negatively impacted financially.

A spokesman from Orange told This is Money that it is making allowances for customers who feel the change is of ‘financial determent’.

This is Money has received dozens of emails from readers who claim they were promised the deal was ‘for life’ and that they were persuaded to sign up to a mobile contract because of the offer.

A thread on the MoneySavingExpert forum, which has been viewed by over 150,000 people and has 3,000 comments, has thousands of posts from readers who say that Orange had promised the free broadband ‘for life.’

Money Mail first reported that Orange was backtracking on the change last month after the team received dozens of angry letters from customers.

Ofcom told This is Money last month that it has received over 250 complaints about Orange on this issue.